It's like white people terrified by the civil rights movement of the '60's, sure it would lead to H. Rap Brown and Malcolm X in charge of the country "and a total breakdown of law and order" ("law and order" once being a term restricted to whites using it against blacks and other minorities because they were, by definition, disorderly. One thing I learned early in life, and was reinforced by law school: law is not connected to order. Law is governmental; order is societal. Cuba just now has laws; what it lacks is order. And a lot of people in Florida, including elected officials, think that disorder in Cuba is just fine. Martin Luther King used passive resistance to order to challenge and expose the unjustness of the law. "Law and order" was a phrase commonly used against his arguments. EOD.)"You can mock Lindell, dismiss him, or call him a crackhead, but none of this will seem particularly funny when we truly have an illegitimate president in the White House and a total breakdown of law and order," @anneapplebaum writes: https://t.co/hkNX9aOdxq
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) July 29, 2021
BTW, we had a truly illegitimate President in the White House for four years, unless by "illegitimate" you mean one placed there contrary to the law. Trump met the Constitutional requirements; and the courts rebuffed his legal challenges to his re-election, his attempts to retain his office contrary to law. Are we to understand Mike Lindell will succeed with his mad assertions about August 13, 2021? Or we are to tremble in fear because loonies walk among us? How can we sustain a republic if everyone in it is not as safely bourgeois as we?
"Total breakdown of law and order"? (Yeah, I'm back to that one.) Isn't that what supposedly happened in New Orleans during Katrina? Except the only examples of it were police forces refusing to let people cross the bridges and walk out of the disaster area. It was the claims that "law and order" had broken down in New Orleans that led to law and order breaking down around New Orleans.
Be careful what you wish for....
The Atlantic is turning into a parody of something it didn't used to be. It does read as like a draft script for Wild In The Streets 2024.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, there was the insurrection and what the Republican-fascists are doing to make what the putschists wanted the way we elect a president as it is already the way they elect lower offices.